The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1887-10-06

and invariably to the dishonor and weakness
of the partisans who invoke it.
NEW YORK STATE REPRESENTATION
But our special duty lies in New York
State. What is our conditionf Have we
fair Democratic Republican representation
in our Legislature? Why is it that the Re-
puhlicans control it, Notwithstanding New
York has been Democratic every year for the
past five years? With majestic msjorities,
ranging up into the hundred thousands, and
with two Democratic executives elected, we
still illustrate the odious tyranny which King
George and his Tories practiced, and against
which our ancestors protested through seven
years of conflict. (Cheers).
Is not our Constitution obligatory on all?
Republicans! where do you get the divine
right to override its provisions Republican
legislators! if you are ignorant. have you not
been advised of your duty by Gov. Hill-not
once, but twice? You were bound, were YOU
not, by oath, to support the Constitution of
the State in all its mandates? One of these
(section 4, article 81 requires such legislation
as will efectuate an enumeration of the in
habitants of the State, which the Constitution
declares should be taken in order to secure an
equitable apportionment of Senators and
members of Assembly for the several counties.
This was an easy and comparatively cost
less duty. Yet you pretend that this means
census of resources, instead of an enumera-
tion of the people. You evaded the real duty,
and pretended to make an expensive and use
less census, knowing it was not cons itutional
or necessary. You refused to make provision
for the enumeration. Your crude and par
tisan law was vetoed by the Governor on the
9th of May, 1885, as its desire to prevent
enumeration was plain. The Governor in
sisted that the mandate of the Constitution
should be obeyed. The issue went to the
people, and Gov. Hill was sustained. This
should have been 20 you a moral mandate,
Accordingly, in his message of Jan. l, 1856,
he again called your attention to your delin-
quency. He reminded you that once before,
under the enumeration of 1875, the Legisla-
ture of 1876 should have enacted such law.
1t was postponed for three years, as the Con-
gressiOnal apportionment had been for, two
years. He reminded you that you could not
expect the people to be law-abiding, when
their representatives utterly disregard the
especial mandates of the Constitution they
have sworn to support. The Governor reck-
oned too much on public opinion to influence
your moral sense. l cannot say that you
were peIjured, but by all the rules of judicial
Interpretation, before God and man, the Grand
Jury of the people, by their vote, had assigned
this crime to you and your constituent pre-
tenders to morality and piety. daughter
and cheers).
The motive for such forsworn company
of misrepresentation is apparent. They know
an honest reapportiOnment according to pop
ulation shown by the Federal census of 1850,
whose accuracy was never challenged, would
give the Democracy control of the State
Legislature. That census shows that in
eleven Republican counties there was a net
loss, and in the three counties of New York,
Kings and Albany, the population had grown
double that of the other fiity-seven counties.
The Governor limited that some miasma had
stricken these Republican places, while health
had energized and increased the Democratic
strongholds - (laughter) - and as a conse-
quence the desperate party managers and
Solons resorted TO perjury to reverse this
economic order, to foil this normal increase and
despoil the people of their organic right of rep
resentation. The argument against this des-
perate and persistent clutch for political
power should be rung from one side of the
State to the other. The people whose repre-.
sentation is robbed should know it. (Cheers).
FRIENDS OF LABOR. TO THE FRONT!
Where is our friend, DR.. McGlynn, to hurl
h,s anathema against these recreants, who, if
they do not steal the land from the people,
rob them of the guarantee by which all rights
of life, liberty and property are destroyed
by the destruction of equality of representa-
tion in the State? Where is Henry George?
Why does he not illuminate his thunder
against the sneak thieves, who, to perpetuate
their lax tax systems-Federal and State
scruple not to commit political perjury? Let
these accomplished and honest advocates be-
gin their temple of labor, not at the roof, but
at the foundation. (Lsughter).
Why, if voters are TO be counted in New
York, and not inhabitants, by the cen1us of
1880, in our State representation, and if we
applied to the State the traitorous reasoning
of Mr.. Blaine towards the South, even then
this criminal and indecent disregard of the
clauses of the State Constitution, and the
traditions of the Revolutionary war against
Great Britain, would still be aagitious and
base.
Reduced to such straits to maintain ITSELF
to what party shibboleth or sentiment does
this party, which plurders the people of their
resort? Is it in foreign affairs?